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Nov 26, 2021 · Sondheim was so prolific in the cause of making a show work that a CD, Unsung Sondheim (1993), and a sheet music book, The Almost Unknown Sondheim (2016), featured more than 50 songs which, though ...
Nov 27, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, the renowned composer of “Into the Woods,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gypsy,” “Sunday in the Park with George” and other essential works of musical theater, died early ...
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930, in New York City. His parents worked in the fashion industry: His father was a dress manufacturer; his mother was a designer. Sondheim showed early musical aptitude — playing piano at a young age — but his parents were largely distracted, his father by work, and his mother by unhappiness.
Stephen Sondheim circa 1970. Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose most famous work includes A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods ...
Dec 3, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim died last week at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91. For six decades, Mr. Sondheim, a composer-lyricist whose works include “Sweeney Todd” and “Into the Woods ...
Nov 26, 2021 · S tephen Sondheim, the master craftsman of the American musical, has died at the age of 91. His death, at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on Friday has prompted tributes throughout the ...
Nov 28, 2021 · A “Sweeney Todd” collaboration: Stephen Sondheim, center, who wrote the 1979 musical’s score and lyrics, with its stars, Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou. Bettmann/Getty Images. By Anthony ...
